They can never bury Karl Marx’s great ideas

The pioneering political theorist’s warnings about the inequities of capitalism are still relevant and will not be erased by the defacing of his tomb, writes T P O’Mahony.

THEY can deface Marx’s grave, but they’ll never erase his ideas. That was the heading over a short comment piece in The Guardian newspaper, following the recent news that Karl Marx’s grave in Highgate cemetery, in London, had been vandalised for the second time in less than two weeks.